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YesChatGPT · 20 Jul 2025

It's made in a few days what would have taken me weeks as an amateur

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made in a few days what would have taken me weeks

In the thread “I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well”, replying to this comment

Helped: Simpler page-by-page architecture reduced context load for the AI.

… Which means the AI also only needs to keep a few functions and the database in its head, not constantly work on some crazy ui management framework (what that's called). It's made in a few days what would have taken me weeks as an amateur. Yet I know enough to catch a few 'mistakes' and remind it to do it better. …